Japanese Film Director Koreeda Hirokazu at Yale University - "Without Memory" Screening
Koreeda Hirokazu
Friday, February 25, 2011 - 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Auditorium, Whitney Humanities Center
53 Wall Street
New Haven, CT
6510
Without Memory
Directed by Koreeda Hirokazu, 1996 (84 min., video, in Japanese with English subtitles)
A penetrating film about a man who came to suffer from severe memory loss (Wernicke’s Encephalopathy) due to medical malpractice. A recording medium confronts the condition of inability to remember.
Screening will conclude with a Q & A with the filmmaker.
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Sponsored by the Council on East Asian Studies, the Whitney Humanities Center, the Film Studies Center, the Film Studies Program, and the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures
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